Working with Event Logs - Professional SQL Server 2008 Administration with Windows PowerShell - page 130

The following example uses the remote hostname PowerServer3 (see Figure 6-10):
Get-EventLog -computerName PowerServer3 -list
Figure 6-10
In other examples of Get - EventLog shownlaterinthischapter,youcansimplyadd''- computerName
PowerServer3 '' to see the results on the remote computer PowerServer3.
If you would like to query all the entries in the Application event log or the Windows PowerShell log,
all you have to do is pass the log name as a parameter. Execute the following commands, as shown in
Figure 6-11 and Figure 6-12:
Get-EventLog -LogName "Application"
Get-EventLog -LogName "Windows PowerShell"
Figure 6-11
As you know now, the Get-Member cmdlet provides all the methods and properties of any cmdlet.
Therefore, you could find information about Get - Eventlog by executing the following command (see
Figure 6-13):
Get-Eventlog -LogName "Application" -newest 1 | Get-Member | sort MemberType